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Tesla expands with new 35,000-square-foot building near Giga Texas

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Tesla is expanding its presence in Texas as it snapped up a building located in Hutto, located about 25 miles north of its Gigafactory in Austin. million in renovations to the building, which is located off of U.S. It expects to start renovating the building as soon as this month. Tesla plans at least $1.5

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Benchmark Minerals: Europe’s EV gigafactory capacity pipeline to grow 6-fold to 789.2 GWh to 2030

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A more recent trend with Europe’s lithium-ion battery build out is the emergence of auto majors as pseudo-battery producers seeking to secure cell supply through joint-venture plants. For comparison, China is growing by 220% in the same period, while the US is forecast to grow its battery capacity by 575%.

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News: Tesla Announces Annual Earnings, New Focus on Production

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New Products Delayed as Company Shifts to Delivering Current Vehicles. Tesla’s focus for 2022 is quality & quantity of current product. The growth is predicated on two new production facilities—in Texas and Germany—coming online this year to augment existing plants in Fremont, California, and Shanghai, China.

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

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The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. Building more transmission increases the capacity and connectivity of the system, allowing new power plants to connect and more power to flow between transmission networks. The result of these generations-old alliances is a U.S.

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Ford begins production of 2012 Focus Electric at Michigan Assembly, C-MAX models on deck

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Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant is starting production of the 2012 Focus Electric ( earlier post )—a five-passenger, battery-electric car Ford expects will achieve more than a 100 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) fuel economy rating. 1 gallon of gasoline=33.7 Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.; Raleigh-Durham, N.C.;

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Tesla’s Elon Musk says electric planes would be ‘fun problem to work on’

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Tesla CEO Elon Musk has never been shy to back away from a challenge and expanding the potential product line for his companies certainly is not any limitation. For years, while solving the issues, problems, and challenges that came with building an electric vehicle, Tesla has emerged as the top of the food chain in that sector.

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Dow Planning to Build and Operate a Pilot-Scale Algae-to-Ethanol Biorefinery with Algenol Biofuels

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to build and operate a pilot-scale algae-based integrated biorefinery that will produce ethanol, located at Dow’s Freeport, Texas site. The Direct to Ethanol process links sugar production to photosynthesis with naturally occuring enzymes within individual algae cells. By comparison, corn produces around 400 gallons/acre/year.

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